EPA Holding National Cell Phone Recycling Week

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is encouraging citizens to recycle their cell phones during its second annual National Cell Phone Recycling Week, April 5 – 11, 2010. The joint effort, along with the EPA’s Plug-In To eCycling program and cell phone manufacturers, retailers, and wireless service providers, aims to increase awareness about the importance of cell phone recycling.

EPA and its Plug-In partners, including AT&T, Best Buy, LG Electronics, RecycleBank, Samsung Mobile, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon Wireless, are sponsoring promotional activities across the country to highlight the many easy opportunities to turn in phones for reuse and recycling and provide a call to action.

Plug-In To eCycling works with companies to offer consumers more opportunities to donate or recycle their used electronics.  Since the program began in 2003, Plug-In To eCycling partners have recycled more than 360 million pounds of electronics, including televisions, computers and cell phones.

More information on cell phone collection centers near you:  http://www.epa.gov/cellphones